Quotes About Uncertainty

Oh, time," Dane said. "Time time time. Time's always a bit more fiddly than you reckon.

And I who months before had run into town screaming my accusation was shy to say it now that I was asked to put it in clear words. I'd grown used to this world in which everyone knew what had happened or what I said had, in which it had gone from being spoken to being unspoken again, a secret everybody knew. Here I was, hesitating to speak it. I took persuading.

May you always live in interesting times.

A good fortune may forbode a bad luck, which may in turn disguise a good fortune.

Gelece?in ne getirece?ini kimse bilemezdi ve ?imdi olanlar? dü?ünüp üzülmenin de hiçbir yarar? yoktu. Önemli olan sonundaki zaferi kazanmakt?.

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

Anxiety = Uncertainty x Powerlessness

If the Rider isn't sure exactly what direction to go, he tends to lead the Elephant in circles. And as we'll see, that tendency explains the third and final surprise about change: What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.

In times of change, you may not know what options are available. And this uncertainty leads to decision paralysis as surely as a table with 24 jams.

Not cocky overconfidence that comes from collecting biased information and ignoring uncertainties, but the real confidence that comes from knowing you've made the best decision that you could.

As the authors of the book Surprise put it, "We feel most comfortable when things are certain, but we feel most alive when they're not.

Ambiguity does, too. In times of change, you may not know what options are available. And this uncertainty leads to decision paralysis

sometimes in times of change, nobody knows how to behave, and that can lead to problems.

the fourth villain of decision making is overconfidence. People think they know more than they do about how the future will unfold.

In most change situations, the parameters aren't well understood, and the future is fuzzy. Because of the uncertainty that change brings, the Elephant is reluctant to move, and analytical arguments will not overcome that reluctance. (If

Because uncertainty makes the Elephant anxious. (Think of how, in an unfamiliar place, you gravitate toward a familiar face.) And that's why decision paralysis can be deadly for change—because the most familiar path is always the status quo.

Danger will come upon us when it will. We can't stop it. We can only try to be prepared. There's no point in looking ahead to that danger and suffering its effects even before it comes to us.

the confidence of the untested.

Did you ever think how monotonous your life would be if you could see all that was coming to you?

If she had another chance, she thinks, she would do it differently. But chance is a slippery customer, and she can feel Amit's hands growing cold.

For the first time I admit I am giving myself to love. Not the worship I offered the Old One, not the awe I felt for the spices. But human love, all tangled up, at once giving and demanding and pouting and ardent. It frightens me, the risk of it. And I see that the risk lies not in what I always feared, the anger of the spices, their desertion. The true risk is that I will somehow lose this love.

My presence would comfort my sister, who had looked up to me all her life. Wasn't that my duty too? Hadn't my mother told me to take care of her? These different loves and duties battled within me, but finally, my love for Ram won. Was it the right choice? I'd never be sure.

They felt that it was overwhelming evidence for something, that it proved something beyond any reasonable doubt, but they were not sure what.

No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.